Posted on 07/07/2013 3:31:26 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...Now that the prosecution's case against Zimmerman is in, as a legal matter, I just don't see how a jury convicts him of second degree murder or even manslaughter in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
So what happened? How can an armed man who shot and killed an unarmed teen after being told by the police that he didn't need to keep following him, likely be found not guilty of those crimes?
I certainly sympathize with the anger and frustration of the Martin family and doubt that a jury will accept the entirety of George Zimmerman's account as credible. But based on the legal standard and evidence presented by prosecutors it is difficult to see how jurors find proof beyond a reasonable doubt that it wasn't self defense.
Prosecutors are at a distinct legal disadvantage.
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Zimmerman has truth on his side, and he should NOT be convicted. Let's see if the jury agrees.
ABC News setting the nation up for riots. They have NO right to prejudge the case. What stupidity.
Sounds like that guy is finally waking up to those pesky facts.
The mixed race juror B29 has me worried.
Front and center on Drudge.
I wish he would wait until it is over.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that is true, is that supposed to be a bad thing to whoever the brain trust is who wrote this?
Even other lawyers and legal experts have said on television and in print that this is a very unpredictable deliberative body.
The danger is that an all female jury will focus on the fact that a "mother lost her son" above all the other facts of the case.
It gets em ratings AND pushes their favorite narrative.
I agree.
He’s gonna walk...and he is gonna file civil lawsuits galore.
Juries are notorioiusly unpredictable.
The judge has been playing games and per a 2011 case is very biased AGAINST self defense.
Vila v. State, 74 So. 3d 1110, 1112 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011).
(Judge nelson reversed after she denied self defense jury instruction to defendant.)
Because "unarmed teen" toddler-in-swaddling-clothes Baby Tray-Tray didn't stay at home after arriving there, but instead went back, sucker-punched the armed man, and attempted to kill him with his own firearm, but apparently didn't learn how to do that in his bare-knuckle street-fighting training?
“He’s going to walk” - Talk about inflammatory.
Wouldn’t put it past that judge to do something from the bench. I wouldn’t trust her to water plants.
I’m not sure I can take reading many more of the stupid comments from the Traybots without my head exploding.
The bottom line here is that there isn't a single bit of evidence that backs up the prosecution's case. None. Zip. Nada. But instead of coming out and stating the obvious, the author says that Zimmerman is still probably lying about what happened, but poor Trayvon can't get any justice because our legal system is stacked against his dead ass.
They all so conveniently pass right over Z's reply to the statement, "We don't need you to do that"
it is
"OK"
Here's a guy that has done everything for the previous years by the book ... going to school, volunteering for duty, performing in that duty, calling, calling, calling ...
And there is nothing ... NOTHING to indicate he did anything OTHER than stop following.
Maybe he didn't go back to his truck fast enough for your liking .. he stopped following.
I think he "tailed" him, maybe .. surveiled him ... .
IF Z stopped following and ultimately ended up in an altercation, st martin caused it.
The MSM set the stage for this fiasco by describing Zimmerman as a White Hispanic profiling a little Black kid with Skittles in his pocket.
If Zimmerman had set out from the beginning to shoot Martin (or cause him any harm), then he sure as hell wouldn’t have called the police first.
she is so blinded that she created reversible Error Friday over the THC issue when the ME changed his mind
Wonder what she thinks today after so many people have said she is in error.
The outright nastiness that came out july 3rd when discussing the Depo of Crump is because her decision was reversed by a higher court.
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